Author type: Non-fiction

Tomila Lankina is Professor at the International Relations Department of the London School of Economics and Political Science. She received her DPhil from the University of Oxford (St Antony’s and Balliol colleges). She has worked on democracy and authoritarianism, mass protests and historical drivers of human capital and political regimes in Russia and other countries;… Read more »

Kay Barron is Fashion Director at NET-A-PORTER. Kay moved from the Highlands of Scotland to London in 1998 to study Fashion Communication at Central Saint Martins. Following her graduation, she worked in Fashion Features for The Face and GRAZIA, before becoming Fashion Features Director of Harper’s Bazaar followed by PORTER Magazine. She presents much-loved NET-A-PORTER’s… Read more »

Kathryn Hurlock is Head of the History Research Centre, and Reader in Medieval History at Manchester Metropolitan University, and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She is a religious historian working on the ways in which people have engaged in major religious activities like pilgrimage and crusading from the middle ages to the present day…. Read more »

Kieran Yates is a London-based journalist, broadcaster and editor who has been writing about culture, technology and politics for over 10 years. She’s written everywhere from the Guardian, FADER, VICE, The Independent and beyond, had an acclaimed monthly column at VICE titled ‘British Values’, was nominated for Culture Writer of the Year in 2016 and… Read more »

Clive Webb is Professor of Modern American History at the University of Sussex. He is the recipient of a Leverhulme Fellowship, studying acts of violence against foreign nationals in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His research has been featured in articles written for the Guardian, Independent and The New York Times…. Read more »

Liam Shaw is a biologist researching the evolution and spread of antibiotic resistance. He is currently a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford and a Visiting Researcher at the University of Durham. His main research uses DNA sequencing data to understand the ‘horizontal’ transfer of resistance genes between different species of… Read more »

Owen Rees is a classical Greek historian, specialising in the transition of soldiers from civilian life to the battlefield and back again. He previously held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Nottingham before taking up the position of Lecturer in Applied Humanities at Birmingham Newman University. His books on the topic of ancient… Read more »

Joseph Sassoon is Professor of History and Political Economy and Director of the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University. He is also a Senior Associate Member at St Antony’s College, Oxford and a Trustee of the Bodleian Library. His previous books include the prize-winning Saddam Hussein’s Ba’th Party (CUP, 2011), The Iraqi Refugees… Read more »

Dr Adjoa Osei is a Research Fellow at Trinity College, University of Cambridge.  She is a cultural historian whose research is actively interdisciplinary, exploring themes that are at the intersection of Performing Arts, Brazilian Studies, Afro-Latin American Studies, and Francophone Studies.  She completed a PhD at the University of Liverpool in Latin American Studies. Prior… Read more »